Parks / Gardens

“Alexandru Borza’’ Botanical Garden

"Alexandru Borza" Botanical Garden is under the subordination of Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca and was founded in 1920 by Professor Alexandru Borza. It covers an area of nearly 14 hectares and was organized following the Union of Transylvania with ... --> moreRomania. Over the years it was developed both as a tourist attraction for Cluj as important academic and scientific location within Babes-Bolyai University.

The garden contains over 10,000 plant species from all over the world, is divided into several sections: ornamental, phyto-geographic, systematic, economic and medicinal. Romanian flora and vegetation are represented by plants of Transylvanian plains, Carpathian Mountains, Banat etc.

Central Park

Central Park or "Simion Bărnuţiu" Park is one of the first urban parks in Central Europe and was inaugurated in 1830 and the lake was set up 40 years later. Te park buildings were constructed at the end of the century, in 1897, by architect Lajos Pakey of Cluj.

“Romulus Vuia” Ethnographic Park

"Romulus Vuia" Ethnographic Park was founded in 1929 and named after the founder and first director of the museum, Professor Romulus Vuia. Exhibits are represented by construction types grouped by area households and monuments of folk architecture, folk installations, workshops, and fountains, gates, triptychs and interior textiles.

Following the Vienna Dictate (30 August 1940), the Ethnographic Park too refuge in Sibiu, where it functioned until 1945.... --> more

In 1956, the theme park plan was restructured into four thematic areas by Theodore Onisor and Valerie Butura:

Special emphasis was placed on the first two sectors. In the first sector, exhibits are grouped according to the nature of processed raw materials: wood processing, metal processing and peasant mining, processing of wool fabrics, processing of clay, stone processing, processing of agricultural products.

According to the theme plan, peasant households characteristic for different ethnographic regions of Transylvania were about to be built in the second sector. Today the following ethnographic areas are present: Maramures, Oas, Nasaud,Transylvanian Plain, Zarand, Alba Vineyard, Apuseni Mountains Mocănimea, Călăţele Depression, Bran, Bistrita (Saxons) and Gurghiu. The museum has about 200 exhibits.